This compact but powerful MXR guitar pedal is all you need to unleash the most devastating contemporary metal guitar tones ever heard. The FullBore distortion pedal turbocharges your guitar signal with lethal amounts of ultrahigh gain. This is combined with a built-in Noise Gate to knock out the noise associated with extreme gain levels while also adding definition and tightness to syncopated metal riffs.

The effect pedal's extensive EQ controls, with Bass, Mid, sweepable Mid-Freq and Treble knobs let you sculpt your tone with fiendish precision. The additional Scoop switch provides an instant high and low frequency boost that'll rumble the room while also adding clarity. Available from MXR, the world leader in analog pedal technology.

FEATURES

Super high-gain distortion

3-band EQ with sweepable mid frequencies

Tight, fast, switchable Noise Gate for syncopated metal riffage

Internal Gate Trigger control lets you set the Noise Gate's sensitivity

This thing will rip your head off if you ain't careful. I listened to all the pedals that said METAL on them and this was, by far, my favorite. The noise gate is...Read complete review

This thing will rip your head off if you ain't careful. I listened to all the pedals that said METAL on them and this was, by far, my favorite. The noise gate is a must. Gate is adjustable inside the pedal which is a hassle but not a deal breaker. The Scoop and Gate buttons are flimsy so be careful with them and they should last. Everything else is right on. This is not a one trick pony. You get many different tones and you can even use single coil pickups. Thunderous lows and blistering highs and nice scooped sounds. I set the Gain knob at 9 o'clock. That's plenty for rhythm. Set the gain higher for leads and kick in a good high output bridge pickup and get ready to scream. I recommend this over all other Metal pedals. This is the be all end all of metal pedals. None of the other metal pedals brought out the pick attack quite as good as this one. The others are a bit mushy on the attack. I wanted my tone to cut like a knife. This pedal does just that. Very quiet pedal too.

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Excellent sound, one huge design flaw

First of all let me say that I love the sound that you will get from this pedal, and I prefer it to the boss metal zone which is the most apparent alternative, but...Read complete review

First of all let me say that I love the sound that you will get from this pedal, and I prefer it to the boss metal zone which is the most apparent alternative, but I have to warn anybody considering this pedal that it has the absolute stupidest noise gate control ever known to man.

This pedal comes with a fairly robust noise gate. It would be a great feature, but if not adjusted right, the noise gate has the complete power to murder your notes way too early or even mute them before, awkwardly phasing them in a split second after you play them (which was how it seemed to be configured by default.) If you want to use the noise gate, and you will if you aren't a big fan of feedback and don't have an external alternative, you have to unscrew the back of the pedal, and the noise gate control is a tiny screw lodged down deep in a tiny little hole that you need a tiny flathead screwdriver to get to that I can guarantee you either A) don't have or B) will never use outside of this purpose.

If you're like me and constantly switch between guitars with active and passive pickups, I would really recommend either spending a bit more time looking for an alternative or buying a noise reduction pedal with this and turning the noise gate completely off because by the fifth or sixth time I had to unscrew this thing to tweak the noise gate I felt put off from using it.

That said, this is the best sounding pedal I could find for playing metal. If you're willing to deal with that or have an external noise gate already, you won't be disappointed with the sound.

I got this for Christmas after picking it out. I love it a lot and it has a bunch of awesome and very useful features. Like the noise-gate for instance. The sound itself is really really really unique and really good. I had trouble with it sounding like there was really high treble even if there wasn't. Like the distortion itself had an unpleasant high screech to it. I eventually dialed it right and got everything perfect and it cut that down quite a bit. I don't use the noise-gate feature although it works very very well unless you're standing right next to your amp. It's not currently in my chain right now because I backed off such heavy distortion to play a really dirty and heavy style rock with a blues foundation. However if you go look at my chain right now its sitting sideways right above some of my smaller pedals. I plug this bad boy in and play some metal when I'm in the right mood.

Bottom line, it was exactly what I was looking for at the time and I played the sheet out of it.

If you play between the boundaries of Metal to Hard Rock, you will love this pedal! I've own this pedal for years and it has made some eyes pop and gotten me compliments from all sorts of Musicians to include professional ones. Its very versatile and can literally make any rig scream! Even very simple setups like a decent solid state amp and a cheap guitar.I found That really clean amps like Fenders, and Rolands can really make this baby shine due to its high gain and very distorted nature. This pedal is very responsive and has so much attack its insane. The other cool thing about this pedal is the built in noise gate which really helps clean up the hiss of the gain. it also has a mids scoop similar to the signature Dime distortion pedal. This definitely beats all pedals similar to it like the Boss Metal zone, the T-rex bloody mary, Dime Distortion and many other famous pedals. I love howthis pedal has can get many famous sounds like Randy Rhoads, Disturbed, Pantera, Early metallica, All That Remains, Ratt, Van Halen, Godsmack, and more. The only thing about it that some people may not like is that the pedal does have a little bit more controls than average ones and that its high gain maybe too much for some. However I found that if you roll the gain down and mess with the frequency knob and equilizers, you can get a more Crunchy overdrive sound. This pedal literally brings my rig to life and I can't find anything wrong with it. Definitely recommend getting it.

I was rather disappointed with this pedal, but that is not to say it is an overall poor pedal. I disliked the fact that MXR insists on making their products difficult to use; both this and the Carbon Copy Delay have switches that are embedded behind the plated you have to screw off. Why do they do this? This one, compared to other MXR pedals, appears to be made of aluminum. It is lightweight, but an amplifier could crush this thing if it was under one. Also, if you use a daisy chain adaptor, you will get some sparks if you make contact with the casing. I was not too impressed with the sound wither, and was actually hoping for a Boss Metal Zone tone. Oh well, you may enjoy it, it just wasn't the one for me.

I play bone crushing industrial metal in the vein of Ministry, Godflesh, Skrew, etc, and experimented for years using the Boss MT-2, DOD Death Metal, Ibanez Tube Screamer, ProCo RAT, etc, eventually losing faith in distortion pedals, preferring the overdriven sound of my Hughes & Kettner amp distortion until I found this. This pedal gives you that perfect amount of grit with a razor sharp precision that is crucial for extreme metal, and is now a permanent component of my rig. Its harsh sound may not for everyone, but if chainsaw guitar riffs are your thing, you can't go wrong with this.

Okay so first let me warn you......I think this pedal is designed for tube amps. I used it on a solid state amp and I got a little bit of artificial noise from the noise gate being on. This is not too noticeable, it's something you have to look for. However, When using a tube amp, It does get any extra noise. I've found that John Pretucci tone that everyone one is looking for. This is an awesome pedal. I don't use the scoop portion of the pedal. That feature is more of a vintage or marshall sound. It kind of reminds me of the ISF switch on Blackstar amps, which is the kind of amps that I normally use except for when I'm teaching private lessons. Anyways, Solidstate or tube, This is a great pedal and I use it all the time.

This thing will rip your head off if you ain't careful. I listened to all the pedals that said METAL on them and this was, by far, my favorite. The noise gate is a must. Gate is adjustable inside the pedal which is a hassle but not a deal breaker. The Scoop and Gate buttons are flimsy so be careful with them and they should last. Everything else is right on. This is not a one trick pony. You get many different tones and you can even use single coil pickups. Thunderous lows and blistering highs and nice scooped sounds. I set the Gain knob at 9 o'clock. That's plenty for rhythm. Set the gain higher for leads and kick in a good high output bridge pickup and get ready to scream. I recommend this over all other Metal pedals. This is the be all end all of metal pedals. None of the other metal pedals brought out the pick attack quite as good as this one. The others are a bit mushy on the attack. I wanted my tone to cut like a knife. This pedal does just that. Very quiet pedal too.

I watched a few reviews of this pedal on Youtube and decided to buy it based on the sound that reviewers were able to get out of it. Plugged it in to my THD Flexi-50, and was a little disappointed. It certainly put out a metal-level distortion and EQ, but didn't have quite the character that I bought it for. However, when I plugged it in to my Gibson GA-5 (5-watt Class A amp with nothing but a volume control), I was blown away. I can't stop playing this pedal through that amp--it begs you to shred. Also, it absolutely sings with a wah pedal in front of it. The noise gate button works for some playing, but is limited obviously. If you're playing muted chords it works just fine, but for sustained notes it's not controllable enough to be useful.